[TheForge] Titanic - low quality wrought iron rivets

[Jerry Frost]

There sure is such a thing.

When the Bessemer process was invented the old way of 
refining iron was finished. A single Bessemer furnace 
could produce more iron in one run than an old style 
smelter could in months maybe. The problem was it's 
nearly pure iron, not wrought so they added silicates 
to the iron to produce "modern wrought."

The latest difference is they're no longer Bessemer 
furnaces, they're BOF but any "wrought" being made now 
is by adding silicates to pure iron.

Frosty
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If it ain't forged
it ain't real.
Wrought iron is.
The FrostWorks

Meadow Lakes, AK.


From: "David E. Smucker" <davesmucker at hotmail.com>

> Peter, the authors reference to "modern wrought iron" 
> there is no such thing.
>
> Dave